We all know passwords and firewalls are important, but what about the invisible threats lurking beneath the surface of your systems? Identity Threat Exposures (ITEs) are like secret tunnels for hackers – they make your security way more vulnerable than you think. Think of it like this: misconfigurations, forgotten accounts, and old settings are like […]
Monthly Archives: April 2024
Google AI has released a major update to its LLM, Gemini 1.5 Pro. The first major part of the announcement is that previously only available to a limited group, Gemini 1.5 Pro is now accessible in over 180 countries through Google AI Studio’s public preview. This tool now has a 1 million context window, which […]
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OpenAI’s offerings—ChatGPT, Codex, Sora, and DALL-E—have caught the public’s imagination and opened doors to many opportunities for infusing AI into networks, systems, services, and applications. These cutting-edge AI technologies are now deeply integrated with Microsoft products including Bing, Windows, Office, and Microsoft Teams. Within Azure for Operators, we are taking advantage of the significant investments […]
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“Operating a cloud infrastructure at global scale is a large and complex task, particularly when it comes to service standard and quality. In a previous blog, we shared how AIOps was leveraged to improve service quality, engineering efficiency, and customer experience. In this blog, I’ve asked Jian Zhang, Principal Program Manager from the AIOps Platform […]
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Organizations of all sizes are recognizing that using AI fuels the kind of innovation that’s needed to maintain a competitive edge. What’s often less clear is how to prepare your organization to be able to take full advantage of AI. For organizations running business-critical workloads on Windows Servers and SQL Server, how do you get […]
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I’ve met with customers and partners from around the world over the past few months and almost every one of them mentioned the same thing: how fast AI innovation is happening—much faster than the pace of change many are used to. While most see the transformative potential AI poses for their organization, many feel the […]
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Today we are announcing significant changes to Azure AI Search in support for customers building production ready generative AI applications. Azure AI Search has drastically increased storage capacity and vector index size at no additional cost, so customers can run retrieval augmented generation (RAG) at any scale, without having to compromise cost or performance. In […]
At the Google Cloud Next event, the search giant announced lots of updates and new features for platforms to enhance Vertex AI. And of all the exciting details that came out from the event, one of the noteworthy announcements was updates to Imagen 2.0, Google’s image generation models. Google has announced that Imagen 2.0 models […]
Developers using Visual Studio can now have a more unified GitHub Copilot experience with Preview 3 of version 17.10. This update merges the functionalities that were previously offered by separate Copilot and Copilot Chat extensions into a single package. The best thing is that users no longer need to install and manage two separate extensions. […]
Microsoft has released security updates for the month of April 2024 to remediate a record 149 flaws, two of which have come under active exploitation in the wild. Of the 149 flaws, three are rated Critical, 142 are rated Important, three are rated Moderate, and one is rated Low in severity. The update is aside from 21 […]